Brooklands Road Lunsford, Tonbridge and Malling

64 addresses across 5 postcodes (ME20), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 40600139.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £318,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Tonbridge and Malling cost £405,507 in August 2026 (-0.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,500 a month.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 8, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Sheldon Way, is 70 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the M20, carries 113,586 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Tonbridge and Malling costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is New Hythe, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Leybourne Lakes Country Park, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thornhills Medical Practice, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,070 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 104 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 of them fatal or serious.

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Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£318,000£318,000£318,000
20242£365,000£355,000£375,000
20232£302,500£275,000£330,000
20221£212,500£212,500£212,500
20212£332,500£310,000£355,000
20161£331,000£331,000£331,000
20151£200,000£200,000£200,000
20131£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£166,000£166,000£166,000
20111£148,000£148,000£148,000
20102£213,750£212,500£215,000
20091£174,000£174,000£174,000
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Aug 202517 ME20 6RNTerraced£318,000
18 Dec 20242 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£375,000
19 Jan 202412A ME20 6RNSemi-detached£355,000
4 May 202312 ME20 6RNDetached£330,000
31 Jan 202351 ME20 6RWFlat or maisonette£275,000Leasehold.
19 Jan 202251 ME20 6RWFlat or maisonette£212,500Leasehold.
6 Oct 202112A ME20 6RNSemi-detached£355,000
27 Aug 202127 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£310,000
19 Sep 201691 ME20 6RRSemi-detached£331,000
29 Jul 201599 ME20 6RRSemi-detached£200,000
1 Nov 2013105 ME20 6RRDetached£250,000
1 Jun 201247 ME20 6RWSemi-detached£166,000
18 Feb 201127 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£148,000
7 Jun 201091 ME20 6RRSemi-detached£215,000
8 Apr 201031 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£212,500
30 Nov 200920 ME20 6RPSemi-detached£174,000
28 Sep 20072 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£207,000
17 Aug 2007105 ME20 6RRDetached£238,000
15 Feb 20077 ME20 6RNDetached£197,000
14 Jul 20067 ME20 6RNDetached£150,000
30 Jun 200691 ME20 6RRSemi-detached£170,000
10 Feb 20064 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£190,000
6 Aug 200423 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£132,000
3 Jun 20044 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£182,950
31 Aug 2001105 ME20 6RRDetached£143,000
23 Mar 200131 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£92,000
30 Jun 199997 ME20 6RRSemi-detached£76,000
28 Apr 19984 ME20 6RNSemi-detached£69,500
25 Mar 19961 ME20 6RNTerraced£54,000
9 May 199512A ME20 6RNSemi-detached£55,000

House prices and rents in Tonbridge and Malling

A typical home in Tonbridge and Malling cost £405,507 in August 2026, 0.1% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 26% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£687,291
Semi-detached£424,680
Terraced£343,276
Flat or maisonette£221,399
Bought by a first-time buyer£324,939

Private renters in Tonbridge and Malling paid £1,500 a month on average in September 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,039
Two bedrooms£1,343
Three bedrooms£1,639
Four or more bedrooms£2,498

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); Flat (4); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1930-1949 (3); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,112 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% less than the district's 10,596 kWh, and 3,805 kWh of electricity, 15% more than the district's 3,318 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
ME20 6RN283,520 kWh 2810,149 kWh
ME20 6RW131,962 kWh 146,272 kWh
ME20 6RP92,914 kWh 910,102 kWh
ME20 6RR92,731 kWh 1011,947 kWh
ME20 6RL204,308 kWh 2010,797 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME20.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 1,880 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Aylesford BESS Tonbridge and Malling 17/02496/FL Battery storage 29 MW Operational Jun 2020 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allington EFW Maidstone 98/1212 Energy from waste (incinerator) 51 MW Operational Dec 2008 4 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 19 October 2026 to 6 November 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 19 October 2026 to 6 November 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 70 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Sheldon Way Lunsford, Kent until 1970 Inert 70 m
Larkfield Recreation Field New Hythe Lane, Lunsford, Kent Not recorded Not recorded 170 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 64 addresses are between 5 m and 15 m above sea level (9 m on average); the ground rises about 9 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME20 6RL100%100%100%0%
ME20 6RN100%100%100%0%
ME20 6RP100%100%100%0%
ME20 6RR100%100%100%0%
ME20 6RW100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNew Hythe 184,000 journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Aylesford 185,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Snodland 276,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mercer Close Larkfield160 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn7 km (4.3 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn West Malling Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milence Charging Hub1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN33.8 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW47.5 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thornhills Medical Practice Good Feb 20171.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Larkfield Health Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalPreston Hall Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Care homesBirling House Good Jun 20252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationKent Police Tactical Operations3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Maidstone Martin Square, Larkfield Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leybourne Lakes Country Park 109 ha310 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,170 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,030 m²850 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 112 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Leybourne Castle, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Leybourne CastleScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Big LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Ford LakeLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Middle CutTidal water1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Cobdown WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Burham MarshesWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Springetts HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 556064

4 of the street's 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Brookfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Lunsford Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Brookfield Infant SchoolPrimary5–7920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ditton Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Holmesdale SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ditton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Katherine's School & NurseryPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aylesford SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Lift St James the GreatPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Valley Invicta Primary School At AylesfordPrimary5–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 220 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Lunsford Park Pre-School ME20 6SS Sessional day care 24 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 220 m
Glebe House Day Nursery Ltd ME20 6PT Full day care 76 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 470 m (0.3 miles)
Lunsford Primary School Hall & Playground ME20 6PY Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 810 m (0.5 miles)
Little Stars Pre-School (Larkfield) Ltd ME20 6PY Sessional day care 30 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)
Dawn to Dusk Day Nursery (Maidstone) Ltd ME20 6BQ Full day care 76 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
New Hythe Mini Market ME20 6RZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Refuel ME20 6RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Tesco Inc Filling Station ME20 6RJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Tesco Family Dining Ltd ME20 6RJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Kelly's Market ME20 6RJTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Lunsford Park Pre School ME20 6SSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
Bricklayers Arms ME20 6SAPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Bunlayers At Bricklayers ME20 6SAMobile caterer340 mAwaiting inspection
Larkfield And New Hythe Sports And Social Club ME20 6PUPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 2026
Glebe House Day Nursery Ltd ME20 6PTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

104 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour32
Violence and sexual offences23
Shoplifting16
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime7
Other theft6
Theft from the person3
Drugs3
Robbery1
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (69); On or near The Rushes (13); On or near Mercer Close (10); On or near Brooklands Road (7); On or near Leybourne Way (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 4 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 25% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202130
202222
202310
202400
202522
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
31 Jul 2025 17:24 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
19 Jul 2025 10:53 Serious 3 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
9 Apr 2023 11:24 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
12 Aug 2022 21:13 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 40 mph Dark, street lights on
3 May 2022 10:30 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 May 2021 18:06 Slight 2 people: 2 children Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
21 Feb 2021 13:10 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
6 Jan 2021 18:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 40 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the M20 between 4 and 5, with 113,586 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 410 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
M20 4 to 5 113,586 counted 2025 11% -7% since 2015 410 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,068 residents in 404 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4340
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Marsh Way · River Way · Brookfield Avenue · Mercer Close · Chaucer Way · Johnson Walk · Perch Close · The Rushes · Fielding Drive · Albion Drive · Bellingham Way · Sassoon Close

All the streets in ME20 and across Tonbridge and Malling.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.